Macbeth, Young Vic
Events have overtaken this Macbeth, dramatically heightening its queasy topicality. Not just brutal beheadings and torture, but the cost and collateral damage of conflict without end, and the scourge of a tyrant slaughtering his own people, strike one anew in the wake of recent debate. Carrie Cracknell's interpretative, modern-dress production traps us in a military underground bunker, drained of light and colour " a…